{"id":31050,"date":"2018-02-15T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31050"},"modified":"2018-02-15T08:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T13:21:46","slug":"how-the-shtf-in-bosnia-selco-asks-americans-does-this-sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31050","title":{"rendered":"How the SHTF in Bosnia: Selco Asks Americans, \u201cDoes this sound familiar?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/shtf-bosnia-selco-americans\/\">How the SHTF in Bosnia: Selco Asks Americans, \u201cDoes this sound familiar?\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nc_socialPanel swp_leaf swp_d_fullColor swp_i_fullColor swp_o_fullColor scale-100 scale-fullWidth swp_one\" data-position=\"both\" data-float=\"floatLeft\" data-count=\"4\" data-floatcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-emphasize=\"0\">\n<div class=\"nc_tweetContainer totes totesalt\" data-id=\"5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Selco interviewed by Daisy Luther<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was recently emailing back and forth with Selco and we were discussing the situation in the US right now, with the political polarization, the rage, and the general cognitive dissonance. I asked him if he saw any similarities between our situation and the one in Bosnia when the SHTF there during the war. When he replied I knew I had to share this information with you.<\/p>\n<p>While we might like to think it could never happen here, the current events here are eerily similar to what happened there in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>When you read this. think about recent events. The anger about immigration. The destruction of Civil War monuments. The unease between the races. The deep rage about the recent presidential election. The scorn and derision for neighbors who think differently. The way the media fans the flames of dissent between our fellow Americans.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll realize that it definitely CAN happen to us\u2026and there\u2019s not one darn thing we can do except to be prepared.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What parallels do you see with events in the US and Bosnia before the SHTF?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>US and Yugoslavia (in 1990) on first look do not have anything in common because people are going to say, \u201cThe\u00a0USA cannot have anything similar to any socialistic system.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is true but only on first look.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yugoslavia had somewhere around 20-22 million citizens, six republics (similar to states in the US), 3-4 main religions, and many national groups (ethnicity).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The official state policy was to build Yugoslavian \u201cnationality\u201d (from the end of WW1) and through different ways that effort was successful until the 90s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We were \u201csomething big, united through differences with a strong connection to make something big.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the SHTF in Bosnia: Selco Asks Americans, \u201cDoes this sound familiar?\u201d Selco interviewed by Daisy Luther I was recently emailing back and forth with Selco and we were discussing the situation in the US right now, with the political polarization, the rage, and the general cognitive dissonance. 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